Kernel .21 in rawhide
by Mike Chambers
I am getting some kind of "unknown block" or something similar when
trying to boot up with this kernel, whereas with .14 it boots up fine.
System is PIII 750 with 40G and 20G HD's. I think MB is Jabil BX
Motherbard R4 from Gateway if that helps.
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Madisonville, KY
"It's funny until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious!"
20 years, 3 months
Complie prob asm/spinlock.h
by Cal
This compiled under the RH9.0 load. Net driver 3c940/3c2000 SysKonnect
Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters.
The line it doesn't like is:
extern int printk(const char * fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format
(printf, 1, 2)));
gives:
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/spinlock.h:56,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:11,
from skge.c:344:
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:9:12: invalid suffix
"b7d4074" on integer constant
Was there a change?
20 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20031228 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031228
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xinetd-2.3.12-6
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* Sun Dec 28 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- use new technology to filter python dep for inetdconvert instead
of changing the -x bit on file permissions
20 years, 3 months
A good book on C programming?
by Gavin Henry
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Hi all,
During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we
did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest
and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see
a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my old skills back and write something
or help on some projects etc.
I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it,
and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted
websites.
Anyone have any recommendations?
One more question, should I go for C or C++? Which will benefit me more with
GNU/Linux?
Thanks for your time,
Gavin.
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20 years, 3 months
WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY
by Gavin Henry
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Dear Everyone,
I was had this pointed out to me, by Simon Perreault <nomis80(a)nomis80.org>
(with my reply):
"On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 8:49 pm, you wrote:
> 1) Please do not cross-post. (This means sending the same message to many
> lists.)
OK, guilty, but I wanted a varied response, as different people subscribe to
different lists.
>
> 2) Please stay on topic. This has nothing to do with Fedora.
Fedora is GNU/Linux, there are C programmers, like you that use Fedora, and it
is a general discussion list. What's the problem? I'm not asking for money
for for you to join some crazy scheme.
This kind of attitude annoys me about GNU/Linux, I am not wasting anyones
time, so I don't see what the problem is."
And his last reply:
"On December 27, 2003 16:11, you wrote:
> This kind of attitude annoys me about GNU/Linux, I am not wasting anyones
> time, so I don't see what the problem is.
Yes, you are wasting time (and bandwidth, as there are some people on very
slow connections) when you are not on topic. This list is not even about
GNU/Linux, it is about Fedora. General Linux questions do not belong here.
This is Fedora-related stuff only. There are tons of Linux and C mailing
lists.
This is a quick lesson (that everyone must learn, I did too) on netiquette.
You should Google a bit on that topic, particularly on stuff related to
mailing lists."
I am sorry if I have wasted everyones time and bandwidth, but I have spent the
last 3 days searching for up to date links and book reviews, some things you
never find, like the website: http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/public/
recommended by another user.
I admit, I have cross posted, as I not only use Fedora, but Debian, SUSE and
Gentoo. These are all different distro's with different user bases. I wanted
to get a good feel of what are good texts from all the C programmers out
their. I didn't get a response like above from anyone else. Even Alan Cox
replied to me.
What I don't understand is, and I quote, "This list is not even about
GNU/Linux, it is about Fedora."
What is Fedora then?
Again, sorry to waste everyones time, but you have all helped me out.
Gavin.
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Regards
http://www.magicfx.co.uk
http://www.suretecsystems.com
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20 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20031227 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
policy-1.4.3-1
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* Fri Dec 26 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4.3-1
- Fix bluetooth
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031227
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20 years, 3 months
postfix-2.0.16-2.i386.rpm is bad
by Mark Mielke
Reproducable maillog entry pair:
Dec 27 00:45:01 mark postfix/master[17984]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 17998 killed by signal 11
Dec 27 00:45:01 mark postfix/master[17984]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
If I turn debugging on, it shows that the messages gets as far as:
Dec 27 00:45:01 mark postfix/smtpd[17998]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate: decoded response: ...
I am using sasl authentication. Reverting to postfix-2.0.16-1.i386.rpm made
the problem go away. I am currently at fedora-devel-latest as visible from
the FTP site. Since it says in the changelog that this is just a rebuild with
db4-4.2.52, I assume that this is a library linkage or dependency problem.
Cheers,
mark
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20 years, 3 months